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Scientists Are Stuck on an Ice-Locked Ship in the Arctic Due to Coronavirus – VICE

“If the present refuses to get warmer, then the past must become cooler”

NOAA has just replaced their non-scary blue SST anomaly maps with a scarier yellow and red version.

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2020/anomnight.4.13.2020.gif

The new version just heated the oceans way up, and they are now keeping an eye on the Greenland coral reefs. The water off Greenland was quite cold last week, but now it hot! Amazing how this happened after one of their coldest winters on record.

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According to NOAA, a change in resolution made the oceans hot.

notice – Office of Satellite and Product Operations

New and creative ways to heat up the planet.

Andy Weiss was one of the authors of Washington Weather, and contributed huge amounts of information which I used over the past twelve years.  He posted comments regularly on my blog under the name AndyDC, the last one being April 27, 2019.

April 27, 2019 at 11:53 am

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

I’ve been trying to locate Andy ever since, and Kevin Ambrose (one of his co-authors) has too. Kevin found out today that Andy passed away on May 11 last year, shortly after he quit commenting on the blog.  Today is Andy’s birthday.

Andy was an avid golfer, and used to play golf at the current location of Columbia, Maryland (where I used to live.) He hated Columbia, because the creation of the city in the 1960s wrecked his favorite golf course. He bought me lunch in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 2016, and was not in good health.

Andy is fortunate to have missed the current state of Maryland. RIP Andy.

Alexandria Cortez believes that low cost oil combined with a wrecked economy, is good for expensive, unreliable green energy. She “absolutely loves” the current conditions in the US, which was the whole point of the Green New Deal.

On this date in 1980, Montevideo, Minnesota reached 100 degrees.

The average temperature across the US that day was 78 degrees, about twelve degrees above average. The following summer of 1980 was one of the hottest on record in the US, with more than 10% of days over 100 degrees. Based on that metric, it was the last extremely hot summer across the entire country.